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From: bostrov@storm.UUCP (Vareck Bostrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
Message-ID: <674@storm.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 90 05:35:03 GMT
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In article <4136.275af61c@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>In article <14659@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) writes:
>version (especially for I/O) around (as far as I know) and it can handle
>multi-processors (this was a wise move, me thinks). Perhaps you think
>that BSD isn't a standard. Well, then you are wrong.

BSD is most certanily a standard. More of a standard, imho, than ATT is. 
I hate att unix, r4 might be ok (the docs look like bsd docs), but
r3 sucks major time. SunOS is a weird cross between bsd and att, but it
is far more bsdish than attsysvish. 

Mach CANNOT support mulitipul CPU's AT THIS TIME. It is a priority to set
up, and shouldn't be too long now. Once that happens, could you imagine
the NeXTcube with a accellerator? The main cpu a 68040 and 4 other
68040's (symmetric multiprocessing, of course. There would be no "main"
cpu -- imagine that, though). We're talking about a cube that could handle
60+ users!! Geesh, easly 60+ users. As a one user machine, it would be
beautiful..

Mach is really good for I/O, as is the NeXT. Also, the Mach kenal
(kernal  , that is) is tiny compared to attr4 kernals, and other bsd
kernals. 

- Vareck Bostrom
bostrov@mist.cs.orst.edu

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